ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Attitudes toward Guns: Links with Accurate Knowledge of Gun Violence
- Nina Khawam
California State University, Los Angeles - Heidi Riggio
California State University, Los Angeles - Jeremy Hernandez
California State University, Los Angeles
Abstract
Adults completed online self-report measures assessing knowledge of and attitudes toward guns. Accurate knowledge of gun violence is linked to more negative attitudes, except for individuals who identify strongly as gun owners, for whom knowledge of gun violence is independent of gun attitudes, with a near zero correlation between them.
Politics
